The manner in which middle-class women of the Victorian era were excluded from various aspects of the outside world, in favor of the "woman's sphere," was due to the masculine desire to protect the virtues of domesticity. ...

Edmond Rostand wrote Cyrano de Bergerac during a time when realism was beginning to assert its dominance over French theatre. Rostand’s masterpiece, with its neo-Romantic attributes, is often perceived as a reaction against ...

Conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol involves pretreatment of biomass materials to increase the accessibility of carbohydrates in lignocellulose for enzymatic hydrolysis prior to ethanol fermentation. The ...

The process of ovulation is an integral part of sexual reproduction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Various genes and signaling pathways are responsible for the successful process of ovulation to occur. Identification of these ...

In biomedical research, Caenorabhditis elegans is an ideal choice as experimental organism due to striking similarity with human genome and its distinct features such as short life span, small reproductive cycle, simple ...

The Greater Houston Area is currently an EPA designated non-attainment area for the secondary pollutant, ground level ozone. The underestimation of certain volatile organic compound precursors may be behind the discrepancy ...

The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of different identity statuses on academic achievement among a sample of students attending a community college. There were three identities of interest: ego, academic ...

This is a dissertation about different types of cross-dressed performance in Shakespearean drama. Throughout this project, I argue for a more nuanced reading of the performance of female characters on the English Renaissance ...

Louise Glück’s poetry is known for its affinity for change; each of Glück’s eleven poetic collections intentionally departs from her previous work, and Glück herself has written of her desire not to “repeat” herself. I ...

We present a novel method for sparse signal recovery using Particle Swarm Optimization and demonstrate an application in image compression. Images are compressed with compressive sampling, and then reconstructed with ...

This study explores the ways in which John Ruskin’s artistic and social criticism illuminate persuasive elements in Wendell Berry’s fiction, primarily his three major novels: A Place on Earth, Hannah Coulter, and Jayber ...

This dissertation argues that encounters with the beauty of being stand at the heart of Chesterton's novels; through his characters' ability to imaginatively encounter the forms around them, Chesterton's fiction offers ...

In this sequential explanatory mixed methods study, quantitative and qualitative data were used to measure the impact of an informal science program on eleventh grade students’ science knowledge and interest. The local ...

Does the apple fall far from the tree? Proverbs 22:6 says: "Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it." One theory from the social sciences termed Social Learning Theory would ...

School administrators across the State of Texas struggle each year to fill classroom vacancies prior to the arrival of students. These administrators often find themselves repeatedly filling the same vacancies that they ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the academic performance of students who attended two years of pre-kindergarten in San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD), and to determine if there was a cost benefit for ...

In the mid-seventeenth century, revivalism first appeared as a phenomenon in American religious life, and few religious groups were more influenced by revivalism than Baptists in the American South. When Baptists had first ...